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A lobster and a drive

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, I found some older pictures of my dad on one of my computers: they appeared to be still pictures taken (downloaded?) from a camcorder. Both of them showed him with that lobster: a smile or rather a grin on … Continue reading →

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A closer look

Posted on February 6, 2007 by Arthur

Someone was curious about the current (running) statistics of this domain, and particularly, this blog. I’ll let you do the math. Some side comments: about the majority of traffic comes from search engines, as you could have told from the … Continue reading →

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Strange as it does

Posted on February 6, 2007 by Arthur

There were a couple of items in the news that caught my eyes, that is not including the frigid temperatures over here: Astronaut and the love triangle that went wrong: An astronaut (and a successful one at that), a lover … Continue reading →

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So, -snow

Posted on February 4, 2007 by Arthur

I just peeked out the window and saw that it was snowing alright again. It has been going on and off all day, actually. It appeared to be worse yesterday, basically because of the sudden drop of temperature in the … Continue reading →

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Slashdot and then that

Posted on February 2, 2007 by Arthur

Today, I noticed that the much linked-to and (generally) well-liked ‘Slashdot Subculture’ Wikipedia page was deleted: the page now redirects to the more generic Slashdot page (as you can tell from clicking this link). I’m not the first person to … Continue reading →

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Not another groundhog day

Posted on February 2, 2007 by Arthur

This is the future speaking: Shubenacadie Sam predicted that Spring will come early this year. Live from the Shubenacadie Wildlife Park. Oh wait, they don’t do frequent updates I guess. Their loss. Cuteness at the local newspaper’s website. The premier … Continue reading →

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The Tech-huh?

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Arthur

Left over stuff from the weekend: The Neuros OSD, which claims to be the first Open Source Linux Embedded Media Center for US$ 229.00 or something. It’s the buzz around now since it’s Linux-based and (evidently) a growing community of … Continue reading →

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Posted on January 28, 2007 by Arthur

I‘ve been hesitant writing about the game Oblivion (link goes to Wikipedia). The game was passed on to me by Alfons, who complained that (while amazing) the game concept didn’t really appeal to him: too long and dreary. It appears … Continue reading →

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You asked: Sharp+Develop+ODBC+example

Posted on January 28, 2007 by Arthur

I had that question appear in my logs a couple of times, and I assume, these are (beginning) .Net developers who want to have examples of accessing database servers via ODBC in C#. If you thought this was going to … Continue reading →

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Raise the rafters

Posted on January 27, 2007 by Arthur

What do you mean by that? There were troubles at Dreamhost, which you may have noticed yesterday: apparently the MySQL server went down. If the host’s MySQL goes down, xsamplex goes down the tube too. We’ll be bunkering down the … Continue reading →

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You asked: Toshiba laptop Vista upgrade

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Arthur

From the logfiles, the inevitable question about the (supposed to be free) Vista upgrade. That is if you bought your laptop before October 2006: Canadian Toshiba users (and there are apparently a lot of them1) interested in a ‘free’ Express … Continue reading →

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SOTU-STFU

Posted on January 24, 2007 by Arthur

Maybe it’s just me, but every time I see the abbreviation for the State Of The Union (SOTU), I keep reading STFU. What to say about the State of the Union? Earlier (way earlier) on video chat with Alfons, Alfons … Continue reading →

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You asked: a haiku on the metric system

Posted on January 20, 2007 by Arthur

An intriguing question from the apache logs: “a haiku on the metric system”. Why yes, we covered that many moons ago in this post as filed in the category of (you guessed it) ‘haiku’. (Wikipedia: what is an haiku, again?) … Continue reading →

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